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A former Montreal police officer and crisis intervention specialist is calling on the government to implement proper training and protocols when using spit masks.

Protesters marched in downtown Montreal Friday to demand justice for Nicous D'Andre Spring, who died after an altercation with guards at a Montreal jail in December. Family, friends and protesters are calling for the footage of the altercation to be released and for an end to the use of spit hoods.

"We’re getting the word out there as to why our people should feel proud of their history," community leader Michael Farkas says ahead of Februarys events.

Quebec’s chief coroner has ordered a public inquiry into the death of a 21-year-old man last month after he was seriously injured at Montreals Bordeaux jail. Nicous DAndre Spring was unlawfully held at the detention centre when guards fitted his head with a spit hood and pepper-sprayed him twice following an altercation on Dec. 24. He was pronounced dead in hospital the following day.

The civil rights group Red Coalition has called for an investigation into systemic racism following the death of illegally held 21-year-old black man Nicous DAndré Spring at Bordeaux jail. Speaking

An anti-racism lobby group is calling on the Quebec government to launch an independent public inquiry into the jail death of an illegally detained Black man in Montreal following an altercation with jail guards just before Christmas.

MONTREAL - An anti-racism lobby group made a call Saturday for the Quebec government to launch an independent, coroner-led public inquiry into the jail death of an illegally detained Black man in Montreal following an altercation with correctional staff just before Christmas.

A Montreal-based anti-racism group is calling for the immediate release of any existing video evidence of a physical altercation that took place in a city jail that led to the death of an illegally detained man just before Christmas.

MONTREAL - The family of a young man who died after an altercation with Montreal jail guards is demanding an inquiry into systemic racism in the provincial detention system, a civil rights group said Thursday.

MONTREAL — The family of a young man who died after an altercation with Montreal jail guards is demanding an inquiry into systemic racism in the provincial detention system, a civil rights group said Thursday.